Author: OboePrince
Date: 2015-10-03 07:41
It also depends what you are playing too. Mozart and Rossini reeds aren't interchangable with Brahams or Tchiakovsky reeds. A lot of what I make now I can deal with a little bit of edge on the reed because I am playing Mozart, and the reed needs to be light as a feather.
Then in Orchestra, where we are playing Peer Gynt, I have to use a reed to me that is almost uncomfortable, because I am second, so I can't be playing on a freely singing reed, and I am also not setting the timbre, the principal is. I usually play English Horn, so am usually in the spotlight anyway, but on that piece I am playing 2nd oboe, and it's really hard when I can't make a reed that is of medium temperment. I can only make something pretty to play but hard or something way too wild but easy to flex my muscles on.
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